Earlier this week, I wrote about how an inspiring, emotional story on 60 Minutes brought a tear to my eye. I wondered if stories like it were being reported by local TV news and asked for examples to share. James Brown anchors the 5, 5:30, 6 and 11 o’clock news on WHIO, Dayton’s CBS affiliate […]
Earlier this week, I wrote about how an inspiring, emotional story on 60 Minutes brought a tear to my eye. I wondered if stories like it were being reported by local TV news and asked for examples to share.
James Brown anchors the 5, 5:30, 6 and 11 o’clock news on WHIO, Dayton’s CBS affiliate owned by Cox. Somehow, in between all that, he finds time to tell stories like this.
“Newsrooms/reporters/managers have to be committed to telling stories like the one on 60 Minutes” says Brown.
His Making a Difference stories air once a month. “It’s not every day,” says Brown, “but it’s my fight. Reporters … keep up the fight!”
Working with WHIO’s videographer and editor Byron Stirsman, a 35-year veteran of the station, Brown says “reporters and photojournalists have to be willing to work on their own time to tell the stories they love.”
The following story is one that baseball lovers and old men like me love. I’m not as old as the guy featured in this story, but every Tuesday night starting after Daylight Saving Time kicks in through the summer and early fall, I play pick-up softball with a group of other older, and sometimes younger, players. My son-in-law is a regular player and sometimes, when my son’s in town, he plays. I’ve been thinking that maybe it’s getting to be that time to hang up the spikes and give it a rest.
Until I watched this next story. Now, I can’t wait until the first Tuesday night after DST to hear those two magical words that bring us all together: “Play ball!”
Brown says this story is a “perfect example of six hours we spent on a hot Sunday afternoon in July.”
And on a cold day like today across much of America, this is a nice treat.
To see more examples of Brown’s Making a Difference stories, click here.
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